Notices by David Nash (dpnash@neurodifferent.me)

@hosford42 @jamesbritt If I understand this correctly (you have more experience in this topic, so please let me know if I don’t): this sounds like a way to make an LLM become even more fluent and “natural”-sounding than the current crop of GPTs…but, like all LLMs, still confined by the extent of its training data.

If so, I’m utterly unsurprised that the usual suspects were alarmed by how “intelligent” it sounded. Verbal fluency seems to be the overwhelming measure they’re using, and that is known to be hugely problematic…

…especially in the context of #ActuallyAutistic people. https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for